August 2013 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

data collection from online forums
by Yeshua-Katz, Daphna 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Dear AoIRs, I am writing to see if you have recommendations for a Mac software that can download a online forum messages for content analysis. Data should not only include the title but also the message content. Am just trying to find an easier way than manually opening hundreds of messages in Hebrew (right to left text direction that mac hates) and copy pasting them to text edit. Any advice would me much appreciated! Cheers, Daphna Daphna Yeshua-Katz Department of Telecommunications Indiana University www.indiana.edu/~telecom/people/grads/dyeshuak.shtml<http://www.indiana.edu/~telecom/people/grads/dyeshuak.shtml>

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CFP-Workshop on Robust Socio-technical Architectures in Support of Displaced Persons
by Andrea H. Tapia 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION – CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - DEC. 4-5, 2013 Workshop on Robust Socio-technical Architectures in Support of Displaced Persons (DPEW ‘13) Population displacement is a growing problem, with 41.3 million persons displaced globally in 2011. Whether driven from their homes by armed conflict, natural disasters, or climate change, the displaced experience acute demands for connectivity, communication and connectedness. This workshop will define a research agenda with the goal of helping displaced persons meet their information and communication needs. By defining research goals in areas spanning technical designs, theories of information needs and organizational IT governance, the resulting socio-technical architecture will promote development of robust and rapidly deployable technologies. We seek talented and imaginative academics and practitioners from a variety of scientific disciplines, including computer, information, organization and geographic information sciences, communication and refugee studies, as well as practitioners with experience related to shelter or refugee camp management. Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Wireless network access technologies for limited power and backhaul in dense populations • Social network and self-organization technologies for displaced persons • Conflict and convergence in meeting aid organizations’ and individuals’ information needs • Integrated mapping and social networks for personal safety • Challenges for implementing research on displaced persons The workshop will be held in Cape Town, South Africa on Dec. 4-5, 2013, in advance of the joint ACM DEV Conference and 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD2013), being held jointly at the University of Cape Town, Dec. 6-10, 2013. The workshop will be small (~25 participants) and highly participatory. Applicants are asked to submit 1) a 1-page, single-spaced position paper highlighting their intellectual contribution to the workshop, 2) a 1-page biography or 2-page CV, including a website link where available, and 3) up to three published articles. Submissions are due Monday, September 9th and notifications will be made by Wednesday, September 25th. For those invited to participate, the workshop will provide hotel rooms (double occupancy) and meals for all participants. Additionally, participants will receive full or partial travel reimbursement, with the amount dependent on country of residence. Non-U.S. participants will receive $800, and U.S. participants will receive a maximum of $1,970 for allowable expenses. Prior to workshop attendance, participants will be required to submit payment forms, with all payments to be made following the workshop. For more information and submission instructions see the workshop website at https://sites.google.com/site/dpew13/ or email the organizers (Carleen Maitland, Penn State University and Elizabeth Belding, UC Santa Barbara) at displaced-workshop(a)ist.psu.edu. This workshop is made possible through a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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Re: [Air-L] digital ethnography and social media network analysis training
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

hi Ella Helpful for ethics: Beaulieu, A. and Estalella, A. (2012). Rethinking research ethics for mediated settings. In Information, Communication and Society, 15 (1), pp23-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2010.535838 Intro to SNA Dr Louise Cooke presented a workshop session introducing social network analysis at the the first DREaM workshop on 25th October 2011 http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-2-workshop-tuesday-25-octo… -Ella Ella Taylor-Smith Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm Edinburgh Napier University offers industry informed courses which combine the optimum balance of theory and practice to equip graduates for success in today's competitive global job market. 92.3% of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving. With over 17,000 students from over 110 countries, we are an international University and are also proud to be the largest UK provider of higher education in Hong Kong. This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and any attachments are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this email or any attachment, or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Email entering the University's system is subject to routine monitoring and filtering by the University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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digital ethnography and social media network analysis training
by E.McPherson＠lse.ac.uk 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Dear all, I am writing to see if you have recommendations for courses/training in digital ethnography and in social media network analysis - either MOOCs or ideally located in the UK (though I am willing to travel if necessary!). Additionally, any books/resource recommendations would also be greatly appreciated. Many thanks for any advice. Ella McPherson LSE Fellow in Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer

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Position Announcement-Global Media and Technology-Texas A&M
by Randy Kluver 15 Aug '13

15 Aug '13

Associate or Full Professor, Global Media and Technology, Texas A&M University, Department of Communication The Department of Communication at Texas A&M University invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor in Global Media and Technology starting September 1, 2014. This position is intended to enhance our strategic initiative in Global Media and Technology, which explores the relationships between global media, information technology, and new media. This position offers a unique opportunity for a senior scholar to provide leadership in moving a growing program into a place of national and international prominence. Scholars able to teach courses and direct research in Telecommunication & Media Studies, with a strong research program on global media and/or technology, are invited to apply. Experience with grant funding is desirable. We particularly invite applications from scholars who can help to develop collaborative programming with other key initiatives, including a departmental emphasis on Civic Discourse and Leadership and the university-wide Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture. Texas A&M is an internationally prominent university with a global reach (including a branch campus in Doha, Qatar, and international study centers in Costa Rica and Italy), and international impact. Our close proximity to some of the nation's largest cities also provides opportunities for collaboration with media corporations and other top universities in highly diverse metropolitan areas. The department offers the PhD, MA, and BA degrees, and has 20 tenure-track faculty members, 45 graduate students, and over 1000 undergraduate majors. Further information regarding the department is available at: http://comm.tamu.edu. Texas A&M is a research-intensive flagship university with more than 53,000 students, including 10,000 graduate students, making it the sixth largest university in the United States. The student body includes 26% African American, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander, and American Indian or Alaskan Native students, as well as approximately 5000 international students from 124 countries. We seek candidates who can teach in a diverse and global classroom. Texas A&M ranks among the top universities nationally in total research expenditures (with more than $700 million dollars per year), and in total endowment funds. We are an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, deeply committed to diversity, and respond to the needs of dual-career couples. To receive fullest consideration, applicants should apply by November 1, 2013, but applications will continue to be accepted until the positions are filled. A PhD and strong record of scholarship and teaching are required; successful candidates will be expected to contribute to the department in the areas of teaching, research, and service. Interested candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to: Randy Kluver (rkluver(a)tamu.edu<mailto:rkluver@tamu.edu>). Department of Communication, 4234 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4234. Phone: (979) 845-5500; FAX: (979) 845-6594 (emailed applications are preferred). References will not be contacted without permission. -- Randy Kluver, Ph.D. Executive Director, Global Program Support Global Partnerships and Projects Associate Professor, Department of Communication Texas A&M University Bizzell Hall West 253 | 3371 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3371| USA Tel. +1 979.845.3099

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CFP - one month left for Surveillance, Games and Play
by Jennifer Whitson 15 Aug '13

15 Aug '13

Hello, There is one month left to get your submission in for the special issue of * Surveillance & Society<http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/announceme…> *on surveillance, games and play. The deadline for submissions is September 15th, and the issue will be published this upcoming spring. We're really excited by all the interest this issue has generated and would like to make it truly phenomenal, so please contact either Bart Simon or I if you have any questions- or if you have a stellar Eve Online paper that must be published. ;) The full CFP is below. *CFP Surveillance, Games and Play * The games we play on our computers, iPads, and video game consoles are watching us. They track our every online move and send data on who we are, how we play, and whom we play with back to game and virtual world publishers such as Sony and Microsoft. Two events in the summer of 2011 exemplify the need to study surveillance in games: a hacker attack against Sony's Playstation Network compromised over 77 million user accounts including credit card numbers, while iPhone users discovered hidden code in their devices that tracked their movements and secretly sent this data back to Apple. This form of consumer surveillance that targets players has eluded critical appraisal in both the games studies and surveillanceliterature. The games we play are not only watching us, but are leveraging surveillance to mold us into better students, workers, and consumers, as evidenced by the growth of gamification applications that combine playful design and feedback mechanisms from games with users' social profiles (e.g. Facebook, twitter, and LinkedIn) in non-game applications explicitly geared to drive behavioural change. Accordingly, traditional surveillance activities are transformed through their combination with playful frames of reference and game-like elements. Yet, as argued by Anders Albrechtslund and Lynsey Dubbeld in volume 3(2/3) of this journal, surveillance is fun. It is an essential component of many games and virtual worlds. It enables family to find each other and playtogether online, such as when adult children who live thousands of miles away challenge their parents to a *Words with Friends *scrabble match over Facebook. Surveillance allows game companies to match strangers with similar skill sets and play-styles together in multiplayer games, thus increasing the flow of the game and players' mutual enjoyment. Surveillancefacilitates coordinated teamwork and sophisticated game economies, exemplified by informational tools such as the damage mods and kill-point monitors created by players for massively-multiplayer online games. Surveillance also makes online games and virtual worlds safe for children and young adults, restricting both the use of inappropriate language and content, as well as prohibiting the entry of potentially dangerous adults. Moreover, surveillance is pleasurable. As game company Valve found when they forayed into biometrics (i.e. measuring galvanic skin response and arousal levels), players are more engaged when they can see how they affect their opponents' own physiological responses. We, as players, like to watch our opponents, anticipating what they will do next. We also use surveillanceto improve our prowess and extend our moments of victory by using recording software and game replay functions This theme issue is dedicated to balancing two very different sides of surveillance: surveillance as a technology of corporate governance and surveillance as a technology of pleasure and play. *Possible research areas might include (but are not limited to):* - The role of surveillance in enabling play and games - The role of play and games in normalizing surveillance - Surveillance as gameplay or surveillance as a game mechanic - Playful surveillance applications - Playful representations of surveillance - Playful resistance to surveillance - Issues of identity, anonymity and pseudonymity in online games and virtual worlds - Online visibilities and the relationship between game publishers and user populations - The implications of using data gathered in-game for non-game applications - The use of surveillance and the representation of surveillance in online games, virtual worlds, and/or gamified applications, including topics such as: - Games that educate users about privacy and surveillance - End-User Licensing Agreements, Terms of Service, and awareness of surveillance - Applications of social networking services, locational data, and GPS devices in games and play - Uses of data gathering services, screen-capture tools, and recorded gameplay sessions - The surveillance of children and youth in virtual worlds and games - State and police use of in-game data for surveillance, tracking, behavioral profiling etc. - Surveillance and the competitive, professional e-sports gamingindustry - Data mining, game metrics, and targeted advertising in the game industry This is not intended to be an exclusive listing of possibilities for this edition. Other possibilities are welcomed and encouraged and can be discussed in advance with the guest-editors: Jennifer R.Whitson<j.whitson(a)concordia.ca>and Bart Simon <bart.simon(a)concordia.ca>. All papers must be submitted through the online submission system no later than *September 15th 2013*, for publication in *March 2014.* Click here<http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/announceme…>for further information on submissions. Thanks, Jennifer R. Whitson, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Technoculture Arts and Games Research Centre Concordia University Montreal, Canada

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Denver and hotels
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Hello everyone, As someone who has had numerous frustrating conference site/ hotel mis-matches, I wanted to give a little local perspective on the Denver scene. The good news is that there are a number of hotels that are an easy walk from the Westin. The downtown area is pretty safe-- so you can count on being able to walk around to lots of great local restaurants. Also, there is a free shuttle that runs up and down 16th street (the hotel is just off 16th). 16th street is a bit of an odd mix-- a pedestrian mall with a bus shuttle down the middle of it. The shuttle also takes you to Market Street Station, where you can take buses to other parts of town or even to Boulder (my home town!) If you have an extra afternoon and want to see the Flatirons (http://www.bouldercoloradousa.com/) The shuttle also takes you to a few blocks from the Denver Art Museum, one of my favorite hangouts. (http://www.denverartmuseum.org/) As we say around here, DAM that's great art! If you want to add a day to see our fabulous Rocky Mountains, take a hike or want other suggestions, post here and I'm happy to give suggestions or point you to resources. One problem about coming to Colorado is that you might not want to leave. That's what happened to me! Janet *Janet Salmons Ph.D.* *Capella University School of Business and Vision2Lead, Inc. *Site- http://www.vision2lead.com Follow Twitter at #einterview Now available as Kindle e-books: Online Interviews in Real Time & Cases in Online Interview Research jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com

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Job in Big Data and Global Affairs at UofToronto
by Barry Wellman 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Job in Big Data and Global Affairs, Munk School https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=13… I'm just forwarding. DK anything about it Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Director FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $22 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] disappearing Youtube videos and suppression of McBudgeting?
by Peter Timusk 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Like me not sending a list reply to the list. Constant use of the Internet may be degrading quality use. From: cka(a)asb.dk To: ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca Subject: RE: [Air-L] disappearing Youtube videos and suppression of McBudgeting? Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:57:57 +0000 Hi Peter, Thanks, you are right, I was able to get to it after restarting. I will be more careful about checking on multiple computers before I post. One phenomenon I did observe was a pattern on 3 different computers that Mcbudgeting was changed to budgeting in google and not in bing on the first search, and 4 times in a row this morning on a single computer. I didn't record the phenomenon, has anyone else experienced Google changing the search term? If so, in what contexts? Cheers, Constance From: Peter Timusk [ptimusk(a)sympatico.ca] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 11:52 AM To: Constance Elizabeth Kampf Subject: RE: [Air-L] disappearing Youtube videos and suppression of McBudgeting? I think and this is not a personal attack you need to be careful with what you as an individual find on any given computer like any given suggested text your or google's computers have "remembered" . That said, being unemployed is worse than working at McDonalds. Thanks to education I am a working stiff. Thanks too, to all your ( the list; plural you) books because I know more about the Internet and sociology and computer use industry trends. This means I got a lot of interesting stuff to talk about at work even if I seem to be just programming geek to many coworkers. > From: cka(a)asb.dk > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:12:44 +0000 > Subject: [Air-L] disappearing Youtube videos and suppression of McBudgeting? > > Hi all! > > Looking for any insights people might have into the overnight disappearance of 2 videos posted about McBudgeting in Youtube and the shift in Google's search algorithm that automatically changes McBudgeting to Budgeting every time you search today. Yesterday I was able to access the video, but sadly did not record them, and for the search, it did it only the first time, today it does it every time I search and the videos are no longer present. Bing does not do this. I went to the WaybackMachine and found that the videos were not archived. Any insights? This seems like the tip of a very interesting iceberg. > > Cheers, > Connie > > Constance Kampf, > Associate Professor > Business Communication > Aarhus School of Business > Denmark > > cka(a)asb.dk > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/

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disappearing Youtube videos and suppression of McBudgeting?
by Constance Elizabeth Kampf 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Hi all! Looking for any insights people might have into the overnight disappearance of 2 videos posted about McBudgeting in Youtube and the shift in Google's search algorithm that automatically changes McBudgeting to Budgeting every time you search today. Yesterday I was able to access the video, but sadly did not record them, and for the search, it did it only the first time, today it does it every time I search and the videos are no longer present. Bing does not do this. I went to the WaybackMachine and found that the videos were not archived. Any insights? This seems like the tip of a very interesting iceberg. Cheers, Connie Constance Kampf, Associate Professor Business Communication Aarhus School of Business Denmark cka(a)asb.dk

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